Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efficiency on the field is even more striking. "He gets everything into that little bag of his," marvels one manager, "cleat cleaners, chin straps, special pads, pliers, rosin." Always, there are duplicate jerseys ready in case of mishap, and his speed in getting onto the field virtually equals that of the players...
...artist was: "Are you going to paint me as a tiger or a cherub?" Had Sutherland tried to catch something of both, he might have got results. Instead he took the easier course of choosing a single dramatic aspect-the tiger. He got nine short sittings in which to bag it. His studies on view last week showed a robed tiger in the Order of the Garter, a cigar-chomping tiger, a tiger weary unto death, and a fat but hungry tiger. Each clearly caught a mood. But by concentrating on the tiger, each missed the complex...
Curb Service. In Fairfax County, Va., police looked for the gunman who drove up quietly to the ticket window of a drive-in movie wearing a paper bag over his head with eye holes cut in it, poked a pistol at Cashier Helen Franklin, reached out of the car and grabbed $1,100, drove away...
...orchard lot, where he poured the slop into two troughs and heard the chup-chop of the sows' jaws. Glad to get away from the smell of the hoghouse, Joe waded through high grass and weeds to what was once a brooder house. He hefted a two-bushel bag of mixed feed and poured most of it into a trough for his non-purebred calves. Stepping back, he gauged with practiced eye each calf's enthusiasm for the mixture. Such attention pays off: only a few days before, he had spotted a white-faced black steer (a grade...
...flight for Washington to attend meetings of the Cabinet and the National Security Council. When he arrived in Washington, reporters asked him why he had traveled coach rather than first class or by Government plane. Said Adams (who used to carry his lunch to the office in a paper bag when he was governor of New Hampshire in 1949-53): "You can save a lot of money that...